The UFC light heavyweight champion just two months ago spoke out against Dan Henderson’s expected therapeutic use exemption from the Nevada State Athletic Commission to undergo testosterone replacement therapy for their UFC 151 fight, which ultimately was canceled.

On a Wednesday conference call with members of the media, Jones was even more forthcoming about Sonnen’s TRT use than he was in August before the Henderson fight, which was scrapped when Henderson pulled out with a knee injury. And, of course, UFC 151 ultimate was canceled altogether when Jones turned down a fight with Sonnen on eight days’ notice.

Now he’ll fight him on a little more than six months’ notice after the two first square off as coaches on Season 17 of “The Ultimate Fighter,” which will starts taping later this month and begins airing on the FX cable network in January.

“I think it’s absolutely terrible if you’re going to consider yourself an athlete,” Jones said on the call. “I mean, TRT would be perfect with Chael Sonnen if he wasn’t competing in one of the toughest sports in the world. I think Chael Sonnen made tons of money when he was a young guy, and now he’s an older guy, and now just to be able to take a drug and super enhance yourself back to where you were in your 20’s is bull.”

Jones believes if the tables were turned, he would be getting far more grief over it than his next opponent.

“Right now I’m 25 and I’m sure I’m not as giddy and happy-go-lucky as I was when I was 20,” he said. “So if I take a drug at my 25-year-old age and have the energy of a 20-year-old, it just wouldn’t be fair.

“Everyone would hate me if I did it, but Chael Sonnen gets to do it? I think it’s bull crap.”

Earlier in the call, Jones began to plant the seed for those comments by waiting for Sonnen to finish answering a question, then asking him, “Are we talking about you being in good shape on TRT or off TRT?”

But when asked for a rebuttal to Jones’ comments later, Sonnen wouldn’t give one.

“I don’t have any comment on the topic,” he said.

In August, on a media call that took place before the cancellation of UFC 151, Jones had similar thoughts on Henderson’s past TRT usage, though his words weren’t as strong as they were Wednesday.

“Basically, I believe that if you’re healthy enough to play a sport, you shouldn’t take any performance enhancing drugs or anything, or testosterone,” Jones said. “… I think things like TRT and steroids are things that should be for the normal people who really need it and not athletes. I think if you’re an athlete, you’re an athlete. You shouldn’t use anything for enhancement.”

In the state of Nevada, six fighters are known to have been granted exemptions for TRT usage, including Sonnen and Henderson, Forrest Griffin, Frank Mir, Shane Roller and Todd Duffee.

Jones and Sonnen are expected to fight on April 27 on a UFC pay-per-view at a location still to be determined, though UFC President Dana White said Wednesday he expects the fight may take place on the East Coast, possibly in New Jersey.

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